Hi all cruciverbalists there!

Hope you are doing pretty well. For those of you who took part in solving the last week's "Care To Read" Crossword Puzzle No.9, it's about time to release the key Thank you all for participating with such zeal and fervour!

Here comes the Key:

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And without any much ado, we want to know who was the fastest to solve the crossword this time.

The WINNER is:

@chetanpadliya

Congratulations @chetanpadliya for winning 50 WHALESHARES.

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And the 5 luckiest correct entries were:

@howtostartablog

@juliakponsford

@korghawk

@chron

@jepu

All of you have won 20 WHALESHARES each from the remaining 100 whaleshares prize pool assigned for this category. Congratulations to all of you!

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Please note that those of you who have not sent me your Bitshares ID* yet, please provide me one at the earliest. If you are encountering any problem in registering your account with bitshares or using whaleshares, please feel free to seek any help by joining Whaleshares Discord Server.

*Referral Link

As always, this prize announcement is provisional and subject to change. Hence prizes will be sent to you only a day after this announcement. I always wait for any objections, errors & omissions on my behalf in case any participant would like to point out to me and I’m open for considering a revision to this announcement. This time I fear I missed to include one of the participants. I've spent over a couple of hours to find for any other entry in my steemit chat account but couldn't locate it. Henceforth, all participants sending me their entries either on Steemit Chat or Discord or anywhere else are requested to at least drop a comment so that I can confirm their participation in case of any mess up at my end. Thanks for your patience and cooperation!

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Wait... Here's the list of all other correct submissions:

Hey! All others need not get disappointed for not making up to the above list. This listing is specially for you! In fact, I'm glad that this time the number of correct entries far exceeded the pre-assigned prize pool, all thanks to you! I'm happy to see more and more participants loving the format of this challenge. But since the beginning of the time (...I mean, since CTR Crossword No.1), I've set a tradition to not to let go any correct entry without a prize. Although there is a limitation at my end and it's not possible to offer everyone a good chunk of the prize pool. So at the least, I'd like to honour all correct entries by mentioning their username in this list. I'm awarding following entries 1 SBD each from the post payout author rewards as a thank you gesture for your efforts in participating and solving the crossword:

Only one name could make it to this list this week 😊:

@sarmizegetusa

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For the participants with incorrect entries, I'd only request them to pay more attention to the task at hand and there is no need to hurry unnecessarily. Submitting your entries in the crossword grid helps in getting some suggestions with any pre-filled letter, it also helps in avoiding any spelling error, and most importantly it helps you in any inadvertent overlook too ...as some of you accidentally submit answers without solving all the clues. So please don't be hasty. Do keep in mind that all correct entries will get some assured prize here. I would love to see your name in this list next time. 👍

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My sincere thanks to all the participants to this contest and best wishes for the next one which is live here.

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GRATITUDE AND A SHOUT-OUT:

A thumping thanks and shout-out to @akrid & @officialfuzzy of Whaleshares Project for all these whaleshares in the prizes here. If you are wondering what these whaleshares tokens are, please find out more about it in posts linked here. To interact and know more about whaleshares, you are welcome to join the Whaleshares Project's Discord Community.

And last but not the least, though it's not possible for me to name everyone here but accept my heartiest thanks to all of you who upvote, promote and resteem the contest post to increase the prize pool for all correct entries.❤️❣️ 💕 💞 💓 💗 💖 💘 💝 💟❤️

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Archive:

If you want to have a look at this crossword's announcement post go here, to check the actual crossword puzzle released after the announcement go here. Keys & Winners' announcement for the previous crossword is here. By visiting these links you can get a good idea about the format of this game. Don't forget to participate in the currently ongoing crossword puzzle game here. Thanks!

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Have you submitted your entry to the current Crossword Puzzle No. 10? What are you waiting for?

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